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Help on using vr920 with aces high II

bedfordia — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:31:16 GMT

I received my vr 920 yesterday. It was purchased specifically for playing aces high II. I've always thought of myself as reasonably intelligent but now I'm starting to wonder. The display works fine except for no head tracking and no 3d. I opened the monitor program and it showed aces high II as one of my games, so my question is how do I get the bloody tracking and the 3d to work. Please.........help.......anybody

WRAP 920 Disappointment

PATZ — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 08:48:32 GMT

Ok... I've bought a lot of gadgets over time & never have I joined a forum to complain about something I've purchased. For all the hype & reviews bla bla... & for almost a year waiting to get my hands on a pair of these WRAP-920 video glasses... I sit here today & I'm like "Wha The F". I've had these 2 weeks now & I'm still trying to perfect them??? Is it just me or are people dumb when reviewing these things. They're chunky - a bad fit - & most of all the video quality is awful. & to think of how much they charge u for these glasses!!! Even playing a proper DVD from the Vuzix DVD player - eah CRAP! Ooooh very very disappointed indeed ): I could go on & on but.... (& by the way I rarely EVER complain about things). But seriously though - if ur planning on purchasing these - please try & go to some shop to try & see what I'm talking about - (I wish I could have). Sorry - but that's the truth of it!

Wrap 920 and Canon 5D Mark II

viardo — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 06:40:35 GMT

I wish to use Wrap 920 as the external monitor with Canon EOS 5D Mark 2 for video.
Questions:
1. Somebody tried so to do?
2. During video viewing, whether it is visible in points around?
3. Whether good quality of video?

(Excuse for computer transfer).
Moscow, Russia.

Half-Life 2 single player

3d — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:33:10 GMT

I know Half-Life 2 is listed in the supported games list.

I just wanted to hear straight from the mouth/keyboard of someone who owns both the game HL2 and a VR920 just how well they work together and if it is very hard to get the game up and running with the VR920 ?

Also, I know the support list say "Yes" but I just want to know for shure, can you use both stereo 3d and head traking at the same time in HL2 and is it also easy to get both working together in this game ?

Vuzix banned from GlovePie??

soundstorm — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:57:38 GMT

Hi everybody

I own a VR920 since yesterday and I'm trying it out like crazy. A lot of post about GlovePie here in this forum, but have you been recently on the website to download the new version?? I ask because when I try to open the exe, a message appears something like : "The author of the programm has been banned in this forum and demands his account re-openend, otherwise no support for Vuzix. Please disable your VR20 and restart application."

:w00t: So no Glovepie for Vuzix Users? How about the old versions?

Hello. People, you know, I think nobody even tries to make VR920 Software/Firmware update, nobody works on it. They promised to make an update a long time ago. But still nothing. I use WinVista & Win7. VR920 don't working correctly with both them. I can't change 2d to 3d in VR920 built-in control.

SirDaniel — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:02:44 GMT

Hello. People, you know, I think nobody even tries to make VR920 Software/Firmware update, nobody works on it. They promised to make an update a long time ago. But still nothing.

I use WinVista & Win7. VR920 don't working correctly with both them. I can't change 2d to 3d in VR920 built-in control. Image stucks. I downloaded last firmware update that must correct this issue but fix don't work for me.

iWear Monitor application can't find my VR920, I get "VGA port not found". I don't have it. I have only SVGAs and use adapter. So I don't have head tracking at all.

The only thing I can - is watch videos.

I NEED NEW SOFTWARE & FIRMWARE UPDATE. Please make it!
And please include analyph option in firmware update.

Wrap 920 + vga adapter in Linux?

coehorn — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:53:21 GMT

I've got Linux running on a Thinkpad with a VGA port. Will the 920 work under Linux? If so, are drivers available or does it emulate another device?

SDK for Wrap 920

dim.tziwnas — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:29:52 GMT

I'm interested in developing an augmented reality application using Wrap 920
http://www.vuzix.com/UKSITE/iwear/products_wrap920.html
(as soon as the additional stereo camera launches the market)

Is there any SDK that allows an easy development for these glasses?

There's only an SDK for the iWear VR920 glasses, can it be used for the Wrap glasses too?

Till the original accessories become available, could I use any other camera or tracking set
for the developing process??

Thank you in advance! :)

VR920 Software update

raven2751 — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 06:59:05 GMT

hi all i got the following message back from Brian J. Degus at Vuzix re the updates for Windows 7 as you don't get the full use of the VR920 in win 7.

my message first:

i am curious if there will be an updated driver for windows 7, as i really like the vr920 and have not seen anything with the same type of functions and versitility it has for 3d and proper head tracking, yes i could buy the nvidia 3d setup but i want to be able to use both of these functions without having multiple monitors, which for a 3d setup would cost more than i make a year

and the reply:

We will soon be releasing software version 3.0 for the VR920 that will have support for Windows 7.

i hope that by soon he means by the end of the year, and that we will have fewer problems 3D in win 7, but read into the message from Brian as much as you want to, i'm just glad they are at least letting us know they are working on it.

Wrap 920 vs. VR920

DrAltaica — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:57:21 GMT

Has anyone used both the wrap 920 and the VR920? How do the optics compare between the two...
How is the eye-strain?
How easy is it to adjust the focus?

Thanks in advance.

Vuzix Wrap 310 Review

cybereality — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 23:54:36 GMT

Check out the full review for the Vuzix Wrap 310:
[url=http://www.mtbs3d.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=5313]http://www.mtbs3d.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=5313[/url]

Wrap 310/920 interfacing

coehorn — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 08:38:27 GMT

Has anyone mated either of the Wrap models with a FLIR camera? I'm interested in your experience interfacing *any* FLIR camera but I'm particularly interested in interfacing goggles to a head-mounted ATN FLIR PathFindIR:

http://www.atncorp.com/units/thermalnightvision/car-securitythermalcameras/flir-pathfindir-30

Avatar the game 3d videos on You tube

gssev — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:20:03 GMT

Hi,
I have posted 4 new 3d vids on you tube of some scenes of the Avatar game. You will need to download them first so you can play back the movie. try and get the High quality version downloaded as It will look best on the VR920 .
You tube :
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pl1EIqViBBk[/url]
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vXupvhYH5Y[/url]
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwAHNNLdBL4[/url]
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTqGgMOe4XQ[/url]

You can use [url]http://www.savevid.com/[/url] to download the high def version.

I have a Vr920 but I cannot play Avatar with them so I recorded the games native sside by side 3d output to fraps so I could
view a 3d Movie with my VR920 using the free version of "Stereoscopic player" I have left each vid at about 5 mins as that is the max time the free player lets you watch each vid.
Heres hoping that the new VR920 sotware update will support Avatar as it looks great in 3D.
Cheers
Graeme :cool:

CES 2010

lightpanther — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:17:49 GMT

With CES 2010 just a couple of days away, there doesn't seem to be any vibe about new products from Vuzix, eg the rumored 1440. At this time last year there was plenty of buzz before the event, and all google searches for "vuzix + CES" yield last year's event, wrap 920 etc.

World of Warcraft Error

kmiracle — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:18:00 GMT

I'm using the iWear VR920 with nvidia 8800GT. I have tried reinstalling the software that came with the glasses as well as those from the vuzix website but I'm still getting the error. From what I understand these glasses also support 3d while connected to some of the newer nvidia cards. I'm not sure why Warcraft is giving "failed to find a suitable display device" error. I have also copied the files from the iwear installation folder to the WoW directory. When I uninstall the iwear drivers WoW works as it should. I'm sure I'm missing something somewhere. Has anyone else had this problem?

New domain for Forums!

DrAltaica — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 08:27:56 GMT

They finally moved the forums from forums.vr920.com to forums.vuzix.com

Maybe they are planning on supporting development on their other products soon?

New Problem - Extreme Jitter in Flight Simulator.

lightpanther — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:04:50 GMT

Although it still seems hit and miss even getting these glasses to work on my system, I am getting a big problem in Flight Simulator. The yaw axis is jittering from left to right in a pretty extreme way. What am I doing wrong? I have calibrated the axes several times and flight simulator is showing as "enabled" in iWearMonitor.

Please help. I bought this device for this purpose (playing it in Flight Simulator). At the moment, this perpetual jerking motion in the view will make me throw up if I try to wear the glasses for more than a few minutes :(

By the way another thing that keeps happening is that when those XP windows show up and, as per the manual, it says select "no, not at this time" and then "find automatically" it says it cannot find them, even with the software disc in the drive. I have also pointed it to the drive specifically and it still says it can't find them.

VR920 Blue Screen Installation Blues

lightpanther — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:03:46 GMT

Hi. I got my VR920 through the mail today. Yay!

But...I'm having serious problems in the setup, and I'm falling the manual. So far as I know I've done things in the order said. However, when it gets to the point where it says I should see a window popping up on XP with "not at this time" followed by "install automatically" I do not get these windows with these notifications.

Result is I can see bluescreen light in the Vuzix but no display. I can however hear sound through the vuzix earphones. My main Apple monitor is connected from the card slot on a DVI. The vuzix VGA is connected to a VGA slot alongside it.

HELP!

OBE's possible using vuzix ?

piratg — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:27:26 GMT

Has any one attempted to use Vuzix to recreate Dr Ehrsson's experiment last year that induced OBE i.e. ( outer body experinces ) , or would you need something more powerful ? ( I dont know the resolution of the googles he used )

See link below for further details..

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/TECH/09/06/fsummit.OBE/

Vuzix Wrap 310

barbj — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:24:07 GMT

I purchased the Vuzix Eye Wrap to use with my Ipod Touch and my Apple Iphone 3G. When I followed the directions to set it up, it worked. I saw the video in the eyewear but it was no focused. So I took out the tool to focus. But I may have needed my contacts on.

Now, I hook every thing up and my video stops everytime I plug in the AV adapter for either the IPhone or IPod. Why won't it play? Can someone help? I'm anxious to use these. Thank you.

I am Barbj and my email is barbdjohn@verizon.net. Thanks.

Wrap 920 - New User Needs Help

Orsino — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 07:40:52 GMT

I've recently purchased a pair of Wrap Av920s, and so far I'm really impressed. However, I can't seem to get a perfect image no matter how often I adjust the nose bridge or the individual screws . The image is ever so slightly blurry- it's still very watchable, but does anyone have any tips for getting my focus perfect?

On an unrelated note, can anyone recommend any 3D films that work well with these glasses?

Thanks,

Orsino

Latest nVidia stereo driver working with the VR 920

Vic-Viper — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 03:30:50 GMT

So, I bought one of those 3D Vision setups (just the ir transmitter and glasses) in hopes to get the nVidia driver to output 3D on my VR 920. VR 920 drivers will NOT work for my needs since the driver only works with some apps. The iZ3d drivers helped, but the $50 entry fee was a turn off.

After installing the 3D Vision drivers and configuring it to output shutter 3d at 60hz I was disappointed to find the VR920 didn't recognize the page flipped display. I went into the on screen display in the VR 920 to enable 3D manually, but it just froze (the board will tell you its "by design". I will tell you its a very poor design.)

Apparently the VR 920 has no idea which frame in page flip mode is for left / right. The OSD mode waits for the computer to tell the VR 920 what to do so it just hangs (brilliant, I know).

To circumvent this over site, I loaded up the native VR 920 3d music visualizer. The VR 920 detected a signal and started splitting the frames between the eyes. I proceeded to minimize the app and load a direct 3d game that did NOT have the vuzix driver. Once the game was up, I hit CTRL + T to enable nVidia stereo. BAM, 3D.

The downside is that sometimes the VR920 gets the eyes backwards making me disable / rr-enable stereo. Would have been great if the OSD (on screen display) let me switch (concept, I know!).

This lead me to believe that we need a VR 920 driver that works with people that has native nVidia 3D Vision Shutter support. Only turn on 3d and sort the frames NOTHING ELSE!

The nVidia driver has better software support and much improved performance. It also supports multi-CPU and GPU rendering.

If anyone would like me to test something out, let me know

Virtual Space

McGravity — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 09:15:16 GMT

Video glasses would fit nicely into an idea I have been trying to publicise, about the future of movies and video games. It's at

www.virtualspace.org.uk

and has been continued as a blog at

http://wwwvirtualspaceblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/virtual-space-future-of-movies-and.html

VR920 , 3D movie / Game question, Whats involved to watch 3D?

insurgent999 — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 09:59:20 GMT

Hello there , iam looking at purchasing this headset.( VR920 ) I was just wondering to play movies or games in 3d, Is it as simple as installing the software and playing a movie ,Or does the movie have to be in special 3d format? I was just wondering whats involved in viewing 3d ? Thank you.

wrap 310 has a frozen pixal

crazytaz2218 — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:26:35 GMT

on my new wrap 310 theres one pixal that wont change from blue is there any way to fix this.

plz assist - 3d works but "pauses", ruining 3d effect on Shuttle Launch demo

pb_inmich — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 22:23:22 GMT

When using the Space Shuttle demo the view inside the cockpit "jicks", as though the 3d stops for a moment getting stuck on a single (left or right) eye view, then continues and repeats - this happens fast. This makes it impossible to use as you must constantly refocus. It is as though an "odd" frame is being dropped...I can see the effect on the laptop screen (not just the stereoscopic "effect" but can see when the problem occurs). Therefore this seems to be a software/host problem, not a problem with my headset. The 3D visualization program and provided games work fine (no display issues at all, very smooth).

The same thing happens when using the 3D Stereoscopic (movie) Player from www.3dtv.at. The movie plays and has good 3d but then experiences the same jittering.

Anybody experienced this?

Totally stuck, wrap 310 with VGA adaptor

Borgs8472 — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:10:11 GMT

Hi

So I got the wrap 310 since it was the first version of this product availible. I was thinking of getting an iPhone to go with it, but didn't in the end.

Now I ordered the VGA adaptor so I thought I'd get something working by now, but no.

Questions:
* Should this work with a PC without drivers?
* Which drivers do I need? All the documentation talks about the 920, is that what I have or not?

Please help! I can't get more than a blue screen to display :(

Vuzix 310 Unboxing Video

cybereality — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 17:22:11 GMT

Check out the Vuzix Wrap 310 unboxing video on YouTube3D:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ft3GcyLVr_M

vr1440 oled and release date

coolnesscat — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 05:57:55 GMT

does anyone have any idea on the release date on the vr1440? will there be preeorder on the site soon?

Will it use oleds? how about the new design of sunglases look?

Whats next for vuzix?

Thanks

Info about iWear VR920...

ciano — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:27:07 GMT

Hi I'm Luciano and I'm an appasionate of stereoscopy, virtual reality etc.. . Recently I bought the Nvidia 3dVision, they are good but they have an annoying ghosting effect! Surfing the web I found the iWear VR920 and they looks good for me and will be a good self christmas present !!! ...but I wanna know something...

First at all this is my configuration:

Amd64 3800+
2 GB RAM
Geforce 9800 GTX 1GB
Windows 7 32 bit

I read that they use the Nvidia Stereo Driver to do the stereo effect, is that correct or not? Becouse I read also that they has personally driver about it. Each lens will have their own image or like the lens of the 3dVision? (I think the first one)...I'm confused. So if they use the Nvidia Stereo driver, why just some games are compatible? (I'm talking about Directx 8 or major, or Opengl Games). My prioority is that I can see the STEREOSCOPIC effect in every games, the head tracking is secondary for me (I still want it ;D ). What other problems I will have if I will buy them?

Someone in europe bought it? how much is the shipping? ( I live in italy ).

Thanks.

Converting existing 3D movies for use on Wrap 920

konman — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:56:16 GMT

I purchased the Wrap 920 and found out it does not play any of the 3D movies (which are sold on the same website)- they did play on my AV920 perfectly. I was told by Tech support that there is no forseeable firmware upgrade which will address this. Does anyone know how to convert these movies so that I can play them on the Wrap920? (Please-no technicalise!) Thankyou for any advice!

What resolution does the iPod output at?

cybereality — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:03:57 GMT

I am trying to figure out what resolution the iPod will output video at when using the Wrap 920 with the included cable. Does the Wrap 920 display the iPod's native screen resolution or the resolution of the source video? For example, I have the iPod Nano 4G which has a native resolution of 320 x 240. However the videos I can download from iTunes are at 640 x 480 (max for the iPod). So when using the Wrap 920, does it display the full 640 x 480 quality or is it capped at the native screen resolution of 320 x 240? This is a pretty big deal because if it can't do the full res I will just get the Wrap 310 and save $100. If it can then surely the Wrap 920 is the better buy. Someone from Vuzix, please help me out here...

Wrap 310 Out Of The Box Problem

KPR — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:04:50 GMT

Extending from the top left corner and going half way across the screen, there is a small dotted line that shows on every video I have. Otherwise I am extremely happy with my Wrap 310's. Anyone experience this problem before? Suggestions?

VR920, no support for iPod touch?

Knapweed — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:10:47 GMT

I'm very seriously considering buying a VR920; however, it appears there is no support for viewing movies from the iPod Touch. Is this just a matter of connectors or is there something deeper preventing the VR920 from displaying movies from the iPod? I'm afraid it's a make or break question for me. I'd be more than happy to get the VR920 to play games on but would much prefer it to play movies aswell, as this would very much broaden its usefullness.

drift with glovepie

gigarizel — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:58:17 GMT

I was having lots of problems using the vr920 w/ Glovepie and having the cursor slowly creep or drift to the top or bottom of the screen. I noticed lots of other people on the forum had the problem too so I thought I would post what worked for me. Rounding the orginal value then smoothing it helped but the drift still occured. This does not fix the drift, it just corrects for it.This is based on a 640x480 screen res:

// If the pitch is negative and the mouse postion is less than 300 (top half of screen) Mouse drifts down
IF (VR920.Pitch < 0 degrees && mouse.CursorPosY < 240) THEN var.for_mouseY = ((var.for_mouseY)+1)
// same correction for a downward drift
IF (VR920.Pitch > 0 degrees && mouse.CursorPosY > 240) THEN var.for_mouseY = ((var.for_mouseY)-1)

3d from Youtube can be viewed with VR920

gssev — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:54:30 GMT

I have just uploaded Crysis flight a 3d stereo capture with Fraps and Iz3d drivers. .
I had iz3d drivers (trial version)on split screen output and fraps recorded the short clip.
I used the brilliant 3d option in you tube using the "yt3d:enable=true" in the tags editing section.

I have a VR920 and it is working great but there is not a lot on video content out there. I think things will
improve as You tube has an embedded 3d menu. when a cross eyed or parallel video file is uploaded and a tag is put
in at the uploading part the youtube player gives you loads of 3d option but no VR920 option - so you have to
download the youtube video and play it in the free (5min limit)"stereoscopic player" [url]http://www.3dtv.at/Index_en.aspx[/url]
that has VR920 output.

here is the link:
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QkiN8rDGB4[/url]

If you download it was uploaded in Parallel format.

VR 920 with Dirt 2

Vic-Viper — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:40:08 GMT

TrackIR works great with this game. Wonder what a VR 920 + Logitech Force Wheel + TrackIR for full 6 degrees of Movement would be like.

Here is an amazing Track IR video made from the Demo of the PC game.
[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOCxiFpR93E&feature=player_embedded][/url]

vuzix wrap 920av video glasses

frogger — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 12:20:53 GMT

i was looking on the net and came across this page http://ces.cnet.com/8301-19167_1-10127213-100.html

does anyone have any details about these things

Playable Game Demos

paco — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:52:14 GMT

I'm interested in trying some of the free game demos out there to see if they work with the vr920. I've just tried MS flight simulator - and that didn't work. Have heard that DIRT works so will download the demo now and try it.

Has anyone managed to get any to work?

VR920 Leads for Xbox 360 and PS3

duck34 — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:27:07 GMT

I have purchased a Vuzix iWear VR920 and want to connect my Xbox 360 or PS3

Could anyone please advise on which leads to buy

Thanks